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The following pages are designed to help new users of this Wiki to get acquainted with our guidelines and traditions. These pages should be taken into consideration when creating and editing entries, as they represent a loose consensus among the most active editors of Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki. Please try to follow these guidelines unless you have a good reason not to. It is recommended that editors not make (significant) changes to the help pages without first proposing them on a talk page to see if other editors agree.

Please respect these rules editing. If you spot a vandalized page, please revert it.

Read all the rules in these page before editing, just reading one doesn't cut it.

Contents 1 General Rules 2 Main policies and guidelines 3 Other helpful documents 4 External links 5 Ways to stay Neutral 6 Ways to detect Bias 7 Cleaning up Bias

[edit] General Rules

• Do not vandalize current articles. One or continued vandalism will result in a block.

• THE FUNNY STAYS.

• Do not make pointless articles. If you see one, put on the Request for Deletion tag, such as {{delete}} or {{speedy}}.

• Do not ask for Sysop status on the Wiki, it won't be given to you. If there is a large amount of vandalism needing reverting you may request Rollback status instead.

• For the love of God, please write well. If you can't type two sentences without committing half a dozen errors of spelling, grammar, or capitalization, please do not contribute to our wiki. We would rather have a blank article than one which looks like it was written by a troglodyte.

• Get an account. (The link should be in the upper-right corner.) Changes credited to anonymous IP addresses are scrutinized more closely, and are more likely to be reverted.

• Please Respect Neutrality.

[edit] Main policies and guidelines

• Introduction - Start here! Very basic info about the purpose of this site and using Wikis.

• Transformers Wiki:Policies - The policies and practices of this wiki as reached by general consensus, regarding conduct, humor, not-being-Wikipedia, and more.

• New Pages - Common problems to avoid when starting a brand new page.

• Transformers Wiki:Images - Help with what we expect of images uploaded here.

• Transformers Wiki:Spoilers - Our guidelines regarding spoilers of fiction within the Transformers brand.

• Franchise identifiers - Names and abbreviations for all the different franchises that have been part of the Transformers brand.

• Article types and titles - The main types of articles on this Wiki and how to title them.

• Disambiguation - Instructions for how to deal with things like needing more than one article called "Optimus Prime".

• Style guide - Lots of little things to keep in mind when working on pages. How we like to employ humor, capitalize things, how to cite your sources of information, and stuff like that.

• User Page - Tips and etiquette for your own user page and others'.

• Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal - Community discussion about ongoing issues. If you've got questions or comments that affect multiple pages, this is the place to ask.

[edit] Other helpful documents

• Editing - Instructions on using the mediawiki software to actually change pages. Syntax examples for making links, page headings, tables, etc..
• New Pages - Help creating new pages that conform to our standards.
• Coming soon - Usually we update the wiki with new information as soon as it's released, but only if that information was actually released to the public as opposed to stolen and sold on eBay, leaked from a production house, or published just-yesterday in a members-only fan club newsletter. This article explains our policy and how to mark articles as being intentionally-incomplete.

[edit] External links

• Wikipedia Help Contents - Since this wiki uses the same software as Wikipedia, you may find their help documents useful.

[edit] Ways to stay Neutral

• Do not only one point of view, but all relevant viewpoints as necessary.
• Support your articles with actual facts.
• Use a reliable source.

[edit] Ways to detect Bias

1. The article only provides one point of view.
2. Facts that come from the source may be biased.
3. Does the article lack diversity?
4. Do the facts in the article have to deal with the article?

[edit] Cleaning up Bias

1. Gather facts from other perspectives or other points of view.
2. Make sure your sources are not biased.
3. Support your facts with valid sources.
4. Never use comments.
5. Make your facts deal with the article.